Translating content items

Create a new language variant of a content item and copy content from an existing variant to speed up the translation process.

Written by Jan Cerman Updated over a week ago

With localization configured for your project, you can start translating content items to other languages. See Adding project languages for more details if you haven't set up your project languages yet.

Language variants

Content items can have multiple language variants, depending on the number of languages defined for the project, with each content item identified by its title and codename.

All language variants of a single content item share the following properties:

Content item title

Sitemap location

Other properties such as workflow information (this includes current workflow step, assigned contributors, and due date), comments, and revisions are saved for each language variant separately.

Translating a content item

Let's see how you can translate a content item from English (United States) to English (United Kingdom). Because these two languages are similar, you can start with copying existing content over from the original version to save time.

To create a new language variant of an existing content item:

From the app menu, choose Content & Assets.

Choose the English (United States) project language using the language switcher.

Open a content item.

Change the language variant to English (United Kingdom) using the language switcher.

Click More actions (⋮).

Choose Copy from language.

Choose English (United States).

Now, continue localizing your content. With the original texts in place, you can adjust the words to match the other variant of English.

Note: After you open the content item in the specified language variant, Kentico Cloud automatically creates a new draft of the content item with empty elements, removing its "Not translated" status.